Typographical composing and distributing machine.



K. RGER. TYPOGHAPHICAL GOMPOSING AND-DlSTRlBUTING MACHlNE. APPLICATION FILED 4IULY 8,1914.

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K. RGER.

TYPOGRAPHICAL GOMPOSING AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINE|` APPLICATION FILED IuLY 8. I9I4.

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K. RGER.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING AND DISTHIBUTING MACHINE.,

'APPLICATION FILED JULY 8, 1914.

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.HGEB. TYFOGRAPHICAL COMPUSING AND DSTRIBVUTlNG MACHINE. APPLICATON FILED KULV 8,1914.

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K. Bsen. TYPOGRAPHICM. COMPOSING AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

APPLICATON FILED lULY 8, 1914.

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KARL nenn, .or

BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR T0 MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

. TYPQQRAPHICAL' coMPosiNe AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

Specication olLetters Patent.

Patented Jaa. 16, 1917.

Application filed Tu-1y 8, 1914. Serial No. 849,634.

'To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, KARL RGER, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at 33 Tel` towerstrasse, Berlin, in the Empireof Germany, have invented new and, useful Iniproveniente in Typographioal Composing and Distributing Machines', of which the followingis a specification.

It has already.. been proposed, for the purpose' of bringing into operative position the individualma'gazines of a plurality of superposed magazines in aniatrix composing' and line casting machine, to move 'these magazines in a conimon'frame -as a single entity, or on special frames, one for each magazine or one for each group of magazines, the said trames-` being guided rcetilin'early Vor turiiable; cu'rvilineai'ly about pivotal axes. The inagazinescan be guided rectilinearly only it all ythe magazines have a common distributor, because movement ci the magazines, oi-asit is hereinafter' termed, changing, can be done only after the distribution of the `last previously coinposed line has been completed. lVhen, however, the magazines are adjustable curvin linearl Y each ma azine ma have a siecial distributer which remains in constant operative relationship to the upper end ot that magazine, while thelo'wer ends ot the iiiag azines are alternately brought into opera-A tive relationship to` a coiiiiiioii assembler plate 'entrance As, in these machines, matrices can be distributed into a n iagaziiie -last previously in use, even after a change ot magazines has been eilccted, the said machines must bc so constructed that the position ot the distributing devices relatively to their magazines, tor all positions of the latter, will always be such, as toxiiilVV sure lthe distribution proceeding without 1 interruption.

Vilheii turnable or curvilinearly adjustable magaziiiesaie used, it'hasheretofore been 'found dillicult to embody in a machine the lastv mentioned disposition, especially' in cases in which more than two magazines are employed. It has already been proposed to arrange the pivotal axis of a magazine as high as possible and directly below the distributar rail, but even this arraugen'ieiit does not iii all cases give a satisfactory result.

The invention remedies the aforesaid de feet by causing the magazines, when being tions, to move in paths other than the ordinary rectilinear or truly circular path, this result being attained by guiding` the niagazines collectively, or independently, or in groups, in. or'by cams in suoli a manner that the movement of the.magazines to bring one into operative position disturbs, to the minimum extent, the relationship ot all ot`- the other magazines to their respective disb tributers. j p

The-invention will iiovv be described by reference to the accompanying drawings, the nine figures of which show in side elevation, and more or les's diagraniinatically, nine di'liferent 'constructional forms of the invention. f Throughout the several iigures of the drawings, like reference numerals are used to indicate like or corresponding part-s.y

nall the.'constructiorial forms repre? sented in the diilereiit igures, 1, l, lb, etc.,' are the magazines, 2 the assembler plate entrance, between the partitions of which (not shown in the drawings) the matrices released from the lower end of the magazine then inoperative position, descend, 3 are any olf them can take place regardless of working ijiosition.

G .are the magazine entrances which mqve which magazine is, forvtlietime being, in

In the construction Figui-e 1, the magazii srl, l, are supported on a common magazine frame 7 carrying at.

9, 10, of which each side thereof, rollers,

ly on the said the rollers 8, pivoted dirl `with the magazines whenl they are adjusted ironi one to another position, and of which' there is one for each magazine.

form represented in mafrazine frame 7 en a'feavith uide's or D 7 b grooves ll, and the rollers 9 and 10, pivoted to lugs integral with the magazine frame Z at its upper part, travel along curved tracks 12, both the guides 11 and tracksl?J being cani-shaped or non-circular and fast to' or integral withthe machine fran'ie 13. The

shape of the guides 11 and tracks 1Q is such that, when the magazines are changed or, in other words, adjusted for bringing any one into operative position, the magazineentrances G will be shifted bodily or about a changing axis so as to always retain, relatively to the distributer mechanism, positions most favorable to a continuance of uninterrupted distribution.

The guides 11 constitute virtually cam grooves which serve to move the magazines both rearward and forward by engaging with the rollers S on diametrically opposed lines. and the magazines 1, l, andmagazine frame 7 are so locked together that during the changing operations, they move only as a single entity.

The magazines, for etfecting the aforesaid changing, may be moved by any convenient means; in Fig.` 1 a link'lJc is indicated for the purpose, lthis link beingl itself operated by any convenient means, which, however, constitute no part of the present invention.

ln Fig. 1, the magazines 1` 1, and magazine frame 7 are shown in full lines in the position in which the magazine 1 is in operative register, with the assembler plate entrance i?, and in dot and dash 'lines in the position in which the magazine 1a is in operative register` with the said assembler plate entrance 2.

The arrangement shown in Fig. 2 is substantially similar to that illustrated in Fig. 1, the only material feature of difference residing in the fact that the tracks 12 form, in this example, the underside of what are virtually cam grooves, and further, in the fact that the magazine f'ame 7 isguided by additional rollers Sa, each of which, like its companion roller S, is pivoted to a plate 15 attached to the respective side of the magazine frame 7.

Thearrangement shown in Fig. 3 differs from that last described in respect only of the fact that the upper end of the magazine frame 7 is guided on each side by only a, single roller l), which, like each of the rollers 9, 10 of the arrangement shown in Fig. E2, is guided in a cam groove, the lower part of which is nuichanically equivalent to the befwiI described track 12. Fig. also illustrates au angularly adjustable cam 16 as a means ior adjusting the magazines 1, 1, this cam beingT arranged to act on a roller 17 pivoted to the underside of the magazine frame 7.

In the constructional form represen-ted in Fig. 4. the nlagazine frame 7 is guided at each side by a single roller S) traveling over a track 12, as in Fig. 1, and near its lower end by a single roller S traveling within a cam groove 11, also as represented in Fig. 1. This arrangement also shows as an eX- ample another means for adjusting the magazines 1, 1, the said means consisting of an angularly movable wiper arm 18 which engages with a roller 17 pivotcd to the underside of the magazine frame 7.

In each of the four before described constructional forms, it has been assumed that the guide rollers, cams and tracks have been arranged symmetrically on both sides of the magazines 1, la, but it is to be understood that instead of that arrangement there may be symmetry only as regards the upper or lower of such guiding devices, the other said devices heilig replaced by a centra-l roller and track.

In all of the foregoing arrangements, the magazines 1, 1a and magazine frame 7 are locked together, so that, as previously described with reference to Fig. 1, they all move as one single entity during the operation of changing, but in each of the five eonstructional forms now to be described, the magazines are arranged so that, during the said ope 'ation of changing, one or more of them can move relatively to the other magazines. t

1n the arrangement represented in Fig. 5, each of the magazines 1, 1, is mounted on a separate magazine frame 7, 7, and each of these frames is provided with separate guiding devices which are virtually similar to those previously described, thus, for example, the frame 7, as in Fig. 1, has pivctcd to ils two sides rollers 8 which engage with the (am grooves 11 and with rollers 9, 10, traveling over stationary' tracks 12, and the magazine frame 7 is, on each side,provi .led with rollers 8 which engage with cam grooves 11, and at its upper end, with rollers 9 and 10, which travel over a stationary track 12a.

Beneath the magazine frame 7 there is provided a lever or frame 19 (hereinafter referred to as a lever), pivoted at Q() to the main frame 13 of the machine, this lever carrying at its two sides two upstandiug plates 21, each of which is formed with two rails,represented in dotted lines in Fig. 5, for engaging with two rollers 2Q, 23, respectively, pivoted to the respective magazine frames 7, 7a. The lever 1S) is turned angularly upon its pivot Q0 by means of n link 1l or any other suitable device., and when so lifted it,.,at the same time, raises the magazine fran''es 7, 7 and magazines 1, l, through the engagement of the rollers 23 with th'- respective rails on the upstanding plates 2i.

The consti '.uf'if'na-l form represented in Fig. is somewhat similar to that shown in Fig. 5, the only substantial difference being that in this arrangeiment the lever 1.9 is dispensed with andthe magazine frame 7 itself fulfils the function of that lever, inasmuch as the said magazine l'rame 7 isprovided with upstanding plates 2l having rails over which the rollers 23, pivotcd to the magazine frame e 7, are capable oi traveling. In this arrangement, as 1n Fig. 5,v the magazine 1 is connected to the magazine frame 7 in Msuch manner that, during the changing operation, it has no movement relatively thereto.

In Fig. 7 the presentinvention is shown applied to a machine having three magazines, the uppermost of which, during 'the operation of changing, moves relativelyto the two lower magazines, which latter, during that same operation, move as one entity. In' thisarrangement, the magazines 1,

la, are supported on a common magazine frame 7 which, like the corresponding mag lazine. frame shown in Fig. yl., is` guided by rollers 8, 9 and 10, of which' the rollers 8 travelin cam grooves 11 and the rollers 9 and 10 travel in cam grooves 12, the lower part of each of which constitutes a cam tracksimilar to the track 12 in Fig, 1. The

-magazine 1* is supported on 'a magazine ,frame 7 a, which vis guided inasimilarmansay, the link 14, the magazine,.frame 7 'is raised or lowered,the .magazines 1 .and 1a will inoveas if in onepiece with that'inagazine frame, and the magazine 1b will be correspondingly raised or lowered, but, in addition, move relatively to the magazin'ela 1in a forward or backward. direction, the

rollers 23 'allowing for perfect freedom to move in that direction. n

In Fig. 8, the invention is shown applied to a -machine having -four magazines aranged in two groups, each comprising two of suoli magazines. Each of these groups, during a changing ,-operatilon, moves together with its magazine fra-me 7 or 7a as a .single entity, these two entities being capa-v bie of independentmotion in a manner similiar to the motion of the magazine ll) relatively to the magazines 11 and'l of .the arrangement hist-previously described.- Each of the magazine frames 7 and 7n lis guided in :niliz-puantially the same manner as the equivalent magazine frame shown in Fig. 7;

` consequently no further description thereof herein considered to be necessary. This arrangement, however, diilers 4from that.

shown in Fig. 7 in that the magazine frame 71" not supported directly upon the top of *zinc la, but is supported by the o fran'ic 7, to `which it is,- at each n Vcted by a pivoted link 24. t een that whenthc group com rigasines p i le. the

group comprising the magazine frame 7x and magazines 1b andlc will, through the links 24,- be moved simultaneously therewith, and Vany motion of the last named group due to the curvature of the cam grooves 11* and tracks l2a will be freely allowable by reasonof the pivoted links 2i which, duringthat operation, turn about the 'pivots byA which 'they are respectively connected to the magazine iframes 7 'and 7 x1.

In the constructional form represented in Fig. 9, the magazine frame 7 is arrangedtc moveV in a truly .circular path, as distii. guished from the'curvilinear, but non-cin cular path, common to all the examples 'previously described. This result ris attained,- asin arrangements heretofore proposed, by pivoting the said magazine frame 7-upo studs or stationary pivots 25 situated as near as possible to the vunderside ofthe respective distributor. By this arrangement, when the inagazinepframe 7 is moved about the axis of the pivots 25, that frame and 'the magazines l, 1a, carried thereby, move as a' single entity 1n a circular path. The upper group in this present example, which embraces the magazine frame 7n 'and'magazines 1b and 1, is guided, as in the last preceding example, by three rollers 8a, 9a and 10a-at each side thereof,t these rollers 95 engagingwith cam grooves in identically the same manner asado the corresponding rollers of .the arrangement shown in Fig. 8. The last mentioned "group, comprising the magazines` 1b and 1, is moved during the l'190,

changing operation through rollers 23, which bear upon the top plate of the magazine 1a,the said'rollers allowing that group during the said operation to move independently' of the group comprising the mag- 105 azines 1 and 1a.

Although no special description has hereinbefore been given of the distributer mechanism of the various .arrangements .illusy trated, it will be wellunderstood that, as llo shown in the different drawings, this mechanism is varied according to the number .of magazines to be served by it.

Hav-ing described my invention, I declare Pthat whatl claim and desire to 'seciire' by "m5 Letters Patent is: e .t .1, In a typographical composing and distributing machine, the combination with a magazine, and means operative to movethat magazine latwise, of Vfixed cam-shaped guiding means adapted to convert that motion into a curvilinear motion other than a circular' one.

2.'1'11 a typographical composing and distributing machine, the combination with a 12.5 magazine, and means operative to move that magazine flatwise,r of lfixed cam-shaped guides adapted to guidethe magazine curzilincarly otherwise than eircularly.

f, 'ln a ij-:pographical composing and dis- 13'0 CII Cil

tributing machine, the combination with a magazine supporting frame, and means for moving the trame up and down in the machine, ot lixed cam-shaped guiding means adapted to convert that motion into a curvilinear motion other than a circular one.

4. In a typogrzmhical composing and distributing machine. the combination with a plurality of superposed magazines, capable of moving fore and att indepe" lently of each other, and means operati to move those magazines iiatwise, of iixed camshaped guides adapted to guide each magazine curvilinearly otherwise than circularly and independently ot another magazine.

5. In a typographical composing and distributing machine, the combination with a plurality ot' superposed magazines some of them arranged in a group independently oi another ot them, the group being movable fore and aft as a single entity independently of the magazine outside ot' that group, and means operative to move the magazines flatwise, ot fixed cam-shaped guides adapted to guide the group of magazines and the magazine outside that group, in respectively ditl'erent curvilinear paths other than circular paths.

G. In a typographical composing and distributing machine, the combination with a plurality of superposed magazines arranged in a plurality otl superposed groups movable. fore aml att independently ot each other,

and means operative to move the groups otA magazines ilatwise, of lixed cani-shaped guides :nl:i1-ed to convert the tiatwise movement of each group independently oi the movement of another group, into a curvilinear movement other than a circular one.

T. In a typographical composing and distributing machine, the combination With a plurality ot super-posed magazines and a plurality of independently` movable magazine frames on which they are supported, and means operative to move those trames flatwise, ot lixed cam-shaped guiding means adapted to convert the tlatwise movement ol' each frame independently of the movement ot another frame, into a curvilinear movement other than a circular one.

S. In a typographical composing and distributing machine, the combination with a plurality ot superposed magazines and a plurality of independently movable magazine trames on which they are supported, and means operative to move those frames latwise, ot lixed guides` and rollers on the magazine frames engaging the guides, the

said guides being cam shaped so as to convert the flatwise movement of the magazines thereon into a curvilinear motion other than a circular one.

9. In a typographical composing and distributing machine, the combination with a magazine and a magazine frame supporting it. and means operative to move them llatwise, of fixed guides, and rollers on the magazine frame engaging the guides, the said guides being cam shaped so as to convert the llatwise movement ot the magazine into a curvilinear motion other than a circular one.

10. In a typographical machine, the combination with a plurality of distributers and a single assembling mechanism, of a plurality of intermediate magazines movably mounted so that one or another may be brought into operative relation to the assembling' mechanism without disturbing -their operative connection with the overlying distributers, and a system of lixed curved tracks or guides upon which the magazines are supported, the said tracks or guides being cam-shaped or non-circular so as to cause the magazines to shitt bodily or about a changing axis during their movement, for the purpose described.

l1. In a typographical machine, the com bination with a plurality ol" distributors and a single assembling mechanism, of a pluality of intermediate movable magazines. and curved tracks or guides upon which the magazines are supported at both their upper and lower ends, the curvature of said supporting tracks being such that movement ot the magazines' thereon will locate one or another in operative relation to the assembling meehanism without disturbing the operative connection ot' the magazines with the respective distributers.

12. In a typographical machine, the coinbination of a plurality of magazines, a sup-- porting frame therefor provided atits upper and lower ends with rollers, and fixed curved supporting guides upon which said rollers track, the curvature of said guides being such that the tracking of the rollers thereon will cause the magazines to turn about a changing axis, for the purpose described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

kann ROGER.

vWitnesses z HENRY I'IASPER,

VOLDEMAR HAUPT. 

